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ADAM WEISHAUPT
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HUMAN DEVIL
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Gerald B. Winrod
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BEHIND THE SCENES
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iastical establishments."
IllUMINISM
THE history of world revolution is bound up in the
history of a philosophy-or rather, a disease-
known as Illuminism.
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The believer in Bible truth discovers in this weird
system of occultism a demonic principle capable of
warping and twisting the minds of those who allow
themselves to come under its influence. The Satanic
germ out of which Illuminism unfolds is found in the
letter of the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians, "For we
wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against prin-
cipalities, against powers; against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness
in high places."
As there is a divine illumination which comes into
the soul of man through the revealed presence of the
Holy Spirit, so also there is a counterfeit light which
poisons, blights, blasts, destroys and produces moral
decay. There are psychic laws, black mental currents,
which, if contacted, will bring one under the conscious
control of Satan. There are "seducing spirits" capable
of impregnating the human mind with the "doctrines
of devils".
There is a white light of spiritual illumination. And
there is a black light of Satanic illumination. "Satan
himself is transformed into an angel of light." Illum-
inism is rooted in black magic. It produced a mighty
wave of occultism in the eighteenth century which even
swept governments from their foundations. And the
end is not yet!
These same hidden forces, often using influential
leaders as their pawns, are still actively engaged in
pushing their program of world chaos with the final
objective in view of pulling down the temple of civiliza-
tion and blotting Christianity from the face of the
earth. No matter where we finq. Illuminism or how
we trace its ramifications, Satan is always the Master
Mind behind it. Said the Christ, "I beheld Satan as
lightning fall from heaven." It is true that Satanic
ligh t fills the earth; this accounb for the fact that
the world is in darkness.
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The occult forces from which Illuminism proceeds
are as old as the Kingdom of Satan on earth, but for
the present we shall trace its rise as a visible organiza-
tion from the latter part of the fifteenth century. That
it goes back to Nimrod and his Babel builders is evi-
dent. That it will produce the last great World Dicta-
tor, known to students of Bible prophecy as the Anti-
christ, is probable.
Pausing to consult the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
we discover that the term Illuminism has been used
for centuries by mystic groups to indicate that "light"
had been "directly communicated to them from a high-
er source, or as due to a clarified and exalted condition
of the human intelligence" ..
The same authority finds Illuminism first emerging
from among the Gnostics, which of course takes
it back to the beginning of the Christian era. Gnosti-
cism was a filthy, abominable system, invented by the
Devil, to pollute and besmirch the early Church in
every conceivable manner. It was based upon the twin
evils of Spiritualism and immoral sexual practices. It
taught the idea that reason surpasses faith.
One of the earliest and most prominent Gnostic
leaders was a Jew by the name of Simon Magus. Turn-
ing to the volume Moravians Compared and Detected
by Lavington, we read, "These are heretics, and that
they were heretics of the worst kind that ever defiled
and disgraced the Christian name, is allowed by all
denominations of Christians. Some of these lived
in the first century and even in the Apostles' days,
but the second century was most fruitful in the pro-
duction of this generation of vipers.
"Such was the excellency of their knowledge and
Illumination, who arrogantly styled themselves Gnos-
tics, that they claimed to be superior to Peter or Paul
or any of Christ's other disciples. They only, have
drunk up the supreme knowledge, are above princi-
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palities and powers, secure of salvation; and for that
very reason are free to debauch women, or indulge in
all manner of licentiousness. Simon Magus, who
taught that ,his harlot was the Holy Ghost, instituted
certain foul and infamous mysteries inexpressibly
, filthy and had assemblies equally filthy to celebrate
them.
"For this end they taught incontinence to be
obligatory, as a law; not only lawful, but necessary to
salvation; not only compatible with the Savior's reli-
gion, but an essential part of it; and those were the
best men, who in the common opinion were the most
vicious. For which reason, in their feasts, the candles
were extinguished, each lay with the women, as
chance appointed; and they called this lasciviousness
a mystical imitation, a mystical communion. What
was abominable in others, being highly meritorious
in themselves."
The Gnostic leaders were spiritualist mediums
who were reckoned to be in constant communication
with "spirits" and from this source came the superior
wisdom which this depraved cult was supposed to pos-
sess. In the foregoing outline we see the first gleams
of that system of Satanic illumination which was to
cast its light upon the path of the future.
Historians find the term Illuminism appearing
prominently in Spain during the year 1492. It was
regarded as being a mixture of occult ideas trans-
planted from Italy. In the year 1527 Ignatius Loyola,
founder of the Jesuits, was arrested by Spanish au-
thorities because of his activities in Illuminati circles.
In Sweden we discover a similar organization put-
ting in its appearance in the early part of the eight-
eenth century under the name The Rite of Sweden-
borg or Illuminati of Stockholm. The founder of this
sed was a spiritualist by the name of Emmanuel
Swedenborg. Established in 1721, the Rite has since
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reached into many parts of the world and is reported
to have a considerable following in the United States
at the· present time. It is another stem from the old
root of Gnostic spiritualism.
Wherever the theories of Illuminism are ex-
pressed, its exponents invariably profess a superior
knowledge over the laws of nature and claim to have
all sorts of fantastic powers for making the natural
world give up its secrets. They are pictured as pos-
sessing mysterious medicines, strange poisons, certain
nostrums, an esoteric knowledge of religion, and an
understanding of the principles of a1chemy. Back in
the fourteenth century, the term Rosicrucianism be-
came a: cover name for the whole conglomerate mass
of occult ideas which Gnostics, Illuminates and their
ilk had disseminated during the intervening centuries
since Christ. Today, for instance, it is reported that
Einstein, the Jew who was expelled from Germany, is
a high up Rosicrucian and has been able to communi-
cate with the "Invisible Masters" by means of spir-
itualism, from which source he is said to have come
into possession of his theory of relativity.
Like an interlocking directorate in a business or-
ganization, an examination shows that the many de-
monic lines of occult thought frequently blend, flow
together and converge at certain points along the way.
From earliest times the dominating factor in the mix-
ture has been the Jewish Cabala.
We are asked to believe that a man by the name
of Christian Rosenkrentz was born in Germany in the
year 1378. As a young man he made a pilgrimage to
the Holy Land. Later he met "Wise Men of Arabia"
who helped school him in mystic lore. Then he went
to Egypt where he made advanced studies into the
mysteries of life, nature and the universe. He plumbed
the depths of the Cabala.
Being destined to live 106 years, he died back home
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in Europe in 1484. Bringing all the wisdom of the
ages toge.1fherinto the one great philosophy which he
had created, he revealed his secret to three disciples.
He spent the closing days of his life in solitude. His
burial place remained a mystery for six times twenty
years. In the year 1604 a group of Illuminated ones
were guided to his cave. On entering, they were sur-
prised to find it resplendent with a bright light. It
contained an altar with a copper plate bearing this
inscription, "Living, I reserved this light for my
grave."
Mrs. Nesta Webster says, "I suggest that Chris-
tian Rosenkrentz was a purely mythical personage, and
that the whole legend concerning his travels was in-
vented to disguise the real sources whence the Rosi-
crucians derived their system, which would appear to
have been a compound of ancient esoteric doctrines,
of Arabian and Syrian magic, and of Jewish Cabalism.
Rosicrucianism thus became in the seventeenth cen-
tury a generic title by which everything of the nature
of Cabalism, Theosophy, Alchemy, Astrology, and
Mysticism was designated."
The Rosicrucians pretended to know all sciences,
chiefly medicine. They claimed to be masters in
strange, mysterious and secret matters; superior in
wisdom to the ancient Egyptians, Chaldeans, the Magi
or the Apostles.
Four kinds of demons govern the planet, according
to Rosicrucian speculators: Earth spirits, Water spir-
its, Fire spirits and Air spirits.
Enough has now been written to show, in a gen-
eral way, the true occult character of Illuminism, like
an onrushing torrent, pouring through the centurie;:;
as a system of black magic which has always existed
for the purpose of counterfeiting the pure white truth
of the Gospel. With these facts in mind we are ready
to come to the subject of our discussion, Adam Weis-
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haupt, who was a man of sufficient capacity to be able
to tap in upon this stream of Satanic energy and cen-
tralize it into a program of world conquest which he
named The Illuminati.
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ADAM WEISHAUPT
~IS man was born in southern Germany, February
6,1748. As a comparatively young man we find him
occupying the chair of Canon Law in Ingolstadt Uni-
versity. Hidden behind carefully arranged camou-
flage, he no doubt possessed more power than any
other single individual of his day. Through his ability
to mould human beings and bend them to his will, he
was able to set forces in motion which have since
wrecked whole nations and destroyed millions of lives.
The impact of his evil genius is still being felt the
world around, even down to the present hour.
The plot has been carried on with such secrecy and
diabolical cunning that the man's name is scarcely
known beyond the circles of research where it has
been dug out by students who have a special interest
in occult matters and the study of subversive in-
fluences. It is, of course, to the advantage of those
who are today unloading Weishaupt's schemes upon
the world to keep his name and his principles away
from the public view. It is remarkable how his fol-
lowers have succeeded in keeping him out of sight.
Weishaupt used men to carry out his ideas like
a carpenter uses tools. Being cognizant of the fact
that he was building for the future, that he was
moulding generations unborn, he seemed to have no
personal vanity that required immediate gratification.
He was content to plant the seeds of destruction and
allow them plenty of time to genninate. A brilliant
writer on subversive movements has said, "It is an
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unvarying rule of secret societies that the real authors
never show themselves."
The French Socialist Freethinker Louis Blanc of
the nineteenth century eulogizes Weishaupt as being,
"One of the profoundest conspirators who has ever
existed." On the other hand, we find Mackey, an
American Mason describing him as follows in the book,
Lexicon of Freemasonry, "Weishaupt was a radical in
politics and an infidel in religion, and he organized
this association, not more for the purpose of aggrandiz-
ing himself, than of overturning Christianity and the
institutions of society."
It is pleasant to discover a Mason thus condemning
this monster of iniquity because other Masons, par-
ticularly in England, have praised him simply because
he was able, in his day, to gain control of European
Masonry, bend it to his will and use it as an instru-
ment for carrying out his conspiracy against God,
Christ, the Church and civilization.
Perhaps this is the time and place to say in capita~
letters that FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA AND
FREEMASONRY IN EUROPE ARE AS DIFFERENT
AS DAY IS DIFFERENT FROM NIGHT. This fact
should be borne in mind as we proceed to discover how
Weishaupt succeeded in perverting the Order in con-
tinental Europe, thus using its lodges as underground
breeding places of crime, anarchy, atheism and vio-
lence.
Parallel attitudes toward Christianity have been
discovered in Weishaupt, Voltaire and Frederick the
Great. Each gave lip service to the cause of Christ
when they found it convenient or expedient to do so,
but never failed to improve an opportunity to com..
tribute to its destruction.
Weishaupt took personal credit for the vicious
agencies which he started functjoning. Hear him as
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he exlaims, "what it costs me to read, study, think,
write, cross out, and re-write!" The dream that was
.uppennost in his mind was the constant thought of
destroying the existing order of society. Being ob-
sessed with this ambition, he looked about for weap-
ons whereby the task could be perfonned in the short-
est possible time. He soon saw what might be accom-
plished if he could bring the lodge rooms of Europe
under his control.
Abbe Barruel, a French patriot and Catholic priest
who lived contemporaneously with Weishaupt, wrote
freely about the relation of the illumined lodges to the
French Revolution. Barruel also made a penetrating
examination into the life and personal affairs of the
subject of our discussion. "The man who invented
his Illuminism only to convert it into the common
sewer of every anti-Christian and anti-social error",
is the way he speaks of Weishaupt.
In his book Anti-Christian Conspiracy, Barruel
publishes this interesting statement about a young
man who started out to become an Illuminatus but re-
versed his attitude before he had gone far. The report
shows how Weishaupt and his "adepts" always began
by giving the prospective initiate small doses, to be
increased as the poison started taking effect. "I shall
mention Toussaint, as this man shows to what height
athe~sm raged among the conspirators. He had under-
taken the part of the corruption of morals. Under the
mask of moderation, he succeeds by telling youth that
nothing was to be feared from love, this passion only
perfecting them. That between man and woman that
was a sufficient claim on each other without matri-
mony. That children are not more beholden to their
fathers for their birth than for the champaign they
had drunk or the minuet they had been pleased to
dance. That vengeance being incompatible with God,
the wicked had nothing to fear from the punishments
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of another world. Notwithstanding all this doctrine
the conspirators looked on him as a timid adept be-
cause he owned a God in heaven, and a soul in man;
and to punish him they styled him the Capuchin Phi-
losopher. Happily for him he took a better way of
punishing them by abandoning their cause and re-
canting from his errors."
To Barruel we are also indebted for information
about a man, evidently a Jew, by the name of Kolmer
who crossed Weishaupt's trail at the time when his
Illuminism was yet in a plastic, formative state. Kol-
mer, a genius in matters pertaining to black art was,
from all indications, a Cabalistic Jew from Egypt.
Hearing of Weishaupt, a personal meeting was ar-
ranged. The result was, the Satanic impulses whiCh
already existed, were deepened in the soul of the
man who was destined to wield a lasting influence for
evil upon the lives of countless millions.
Five years intervened between the time that Kol-
mer called on Weishaupt and the day when the latter
officiallyannounced that he was ready to accept mem-
bers into his new order. In other words, several years
were spent in careful planning, thinking out methods,
and making deliberate preparations to attack God and
the governments of the world.
At last Weishaupt was ready to announce, "That
we shall have a Masonic lodge of our own. That we
shall regard this as our nursery garden. That to
some of these Masons we shall not at once reveal that
we have something more than the Masons have. That
at every opportunity we shall cover ourselves with this
(Masonry). All those who are not suited to the work
shall remain in the Masonic Lodge and advance in that
without knowing anything of the further system."
Thus, he succeeded in creating a super-Masonry
with himself in the position of dominant power. He
produced something which he led Masons to believe
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was of a higher character, much older and more mys-
terious than anything they had. Before a great while
he was able to put his key men into all the strategic
positions of Masonry which made it possible for him
to sit back and pull wires from within the shadows.
More will be said about this later, but let it be
remembered that in everything Weishaupt said and
did, he was always animated with just one desire,
namely to destroy, destroy, destroy! When he ruled
Masonry, he did it with this one thought in mind-
to use it as an instrument of destruction so as toac-
complish his secret aims, the extermination of Chris-
tianity and the leveling of all governments to the
ground.
In his personal life, this man was a moral pervert.
He lived in incestuous relationship with his sister-in-
law. When it was discovered that she was to give birth
to a child he became seized with fear and planned an
abortion. From documents which fell into the hands
of the German government it has been discovered that
his organization possessed dreadful poisons and had
no hesitation about using them when to do so might
serve to silence an enemy or advance their cause in
other ways.
They had a powder which produced blindness, a
prescription of a poison which had an insidiously slow
but deadly effect, the formula for another poison which
"devoured everything" when sprayed into the face,
etc. They also possessed a strange substance called
Luisenwasser (Louise Water) because it was secretly
given to Louise, the Crown Princess of Saxony to fur-
ther the romance with ToselIi and thereby detract from
the reputation of the ruling dynasty. These secrets
were all made known to the Bavarian government
when it confiscated the lodge property of the organi-
zation on August 16, 1785.
In their collection of poisons and weird chemical
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componds they had abortive remedies and it was
to these that Weishaupt resorted in his fright when he
learned of the physical condition of his sister":in-Iaw.
He wished to make a suitable abortive, the formula
of which was known to the organization. He wrote
a distracted letter to a doctor who was a fellow mem-
ber, "We have already tried several things to get rid
of the child. She herself is willing to undertake every-
thing. But Euriphon is too timid."
Fate later delivered:this letter into the hands of
government officials with a key to the code in which
it was written whereby it was made understandable
to the authorities. It contained a further reference to
"Celsus" who "could certainly help me and had already
promised to do so three years ago, etc." The last
sentence shows that this monster of vice had been
occupying himself with abortive remedies already for
three years.
The abortion failed and the child, a male, was born
January 30, 1784.
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THE iLLUMINATI
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THE JESUITS
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FRENCH REVOLUTION
AFTER spending years in investigating the Illuminati
and its ramifications, Professor Robison felt
prompted to write, "We assert with confidence, that
the Mason lodges in France were hot-beds where the
seeds were sown, and tenderly reared, of all the per-
nicious doctrines which soon after choked every moral
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or religious cultivation, and have made the Society
worse'than a waste, have made it a noisome marsh of
human corruption filled with every rank and poison-
ous weed. It was in this respect that the Mason lodges
contributed to th-edissemination of dangerous opinions
and tJ:.leywere employed for this purpose allover the
Kingdom. And thus it appears that Germany had ex-
perienced the same gradual progress, from Religion to
Atheism, from decency to dissoluteness, and from loy-
alty' to rebellion, which has had its course in France.
Freemasonry is innocent of all these things; but Free-
masonry has been abused, and at last totally perverted
-and so will and must any such secret organization,
as long as men are licentious in their opinions or
wicked in their dispositions."
Weishaupt's trickery in directing things from be-
hind the scenes is disclosedin the following letter writ-
ten by him to a fellow Illuminatus, "We must consider
how we can begin to work under another form. If
only' the aim is achieved, it does not matter under
what cover it takes place, and a cover is always neces-
sary. For in concealment lies a great part of our
strength. For this reason we must cover ourselves
with the name of another society. The lodges that are
under Freemasonry are in the meantime the most
suitable cloak for our high purpose, because the world
is already accustomed to expect nothing great from
them which merits attention. As in the spiritual Or-
ders of the Roman Church, religion was, alas! only
a pretense, so must our Order also in a nobler way try
to conceal itself behind a learned society or something
of the kind. A sbciety concealed in this manner can-
not be worked against. We shall be shrouded in im-
penetrable darkness from spies and emissaries of
other societies." .
The manner in which Masons were frequently mis-
led,is illustrated by a letter from a leader by the name
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of Cato to Weishaupt, "Now that he (a new prospect)
is a Mason I have put all about this Illuminati before
him, shown him what is unimportant and at this op-
portunity taken up the general plan of our Illuminati,
and as this pl~asedhim I said that such a thing really
existed, whereat he gave me his word that he would
enter it."
Showing how they sought to capture whole lodges,
the followingletter was sent by a member-namedPhilo
to Weishaupt, "I have now found in Cassel the best
man, on whom I cannot congratulate ourselves enough:
he is· Mauvillion, Grand Master of one of the Royal
York Lodges. So with him we have the whole lodge
in our hands. He has also got from them all their
miserable degrees."
Mounier, a French writer left this record in one of
his reports, "Weishaupt made the acquaintance of a
Hanoverian, the Baron von Knigge, a famous intriguer,
long practised in the charlatanism of lodges of Free-
masons. On his advice new degrees were added to the
old ones, and it was resolved to profit by Freemasonry
whilst profoundly despising it. They decided that the
degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, Master
Mason, and Scotch Knight should be added to those of
the Illuminati, and that they would boast of possessing
exclusively the real secrets of the Freemasons and
affirm that Illuminism was the real primitive Free-
masonry."
Not until the government confiscated the property·
of the Illuminati was it possible to penetrate its secrets
and really get at the man behind the system. On one
occasion Weishaupt wrote to an intimate friend, "My
circumstances necessitate that I should remain hid-
den from most of the members as long as I live. I
am obliged to do everything through five or six per-
sons." On another occasion he said, "One must show
how easy it would be for one clever head to direct
hundreds of thousands of men."
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Again he wrote, "I have two immediately below
me into whom I breathe my whole spirit, and each of
these two has again two others, and so on. In this
way I can set a thousand men in motion and on fire
in the simplest manner, and in this way one must
impart orders and operate on politics."
Shortly before the French Revolution, in the latter
part of the eighteenth century, we find the Marquis
de Luchet saying, "This society aims at governing the
world. Its object is universal. domination," He called
the Illuminati "a subterranean fire smouldering eter-
nally and breaking forth periodically in violent and
devastating explosions." He pleaded with Masons, as
a whole, to get their eyes open and save their Order
from these corrupting influences. "Would it not be
possible to direct the Freemasons themselves against
the Illumines by showing them that whilst they are
working to maintain harmony in society, those others
everywhere are sowing seeds of discord?"
In plain language the program of Illuminized Free-
masonry was simply a plan for upsetting the whole
world by revolutions. When it captured the lodge
rooms of Europe, the plan truly became a "subter-
ranean fire." The first great explosion took place in
what we know in history as the French Revolution.
Imagine thousands of lodge rooms converted into nests
of human vipers, men possessing warped intellects
with one uncontrollable impulse surging through their
arteries--destruction ! destruction! destruction I-and
you will be getting down to the true cause of the
holocaust which drenched the French nation in human
blood.
"What was the aim of this occult power?" asks
Mrs. Webster. "Was it merely the plan of destruction
that had originated in the brain of a Bavarian pro-
fessor twenty years earlier, or was it something far
older, a live and terrible force that had lain donnant
through the centuries, that Weishaupt and his allies
had not created but only loosed upon the world? The
Reign of Terror, like the outbreak of Satanism in· the
Middle Ages, can be explained by no material causes
-the orgy of hatred, lust, and cruelty directed not
only against the rich but still more against the poor
and defenceless, the destruction of science, art, and
beauty, the desecration of the churches, the organized
campaign against all that was noble, all that was
sacred, all that humanity holds dear, what was this
but Satanism?
"To those who lived through it, it seemed· that
France lay under the sway of the powers of darkness.
So in the 'great shipwreck of civilization', as a con-
temporary has described it, the projects of the Cab-
alists, the Gnostics, and the secret societies which for
nearly eighteen centuries had sapped the foundations
of Christianity found their fulfillment."
It is a fact that the powers of the Devil cause such
outbursts as the French Revolution, but it is also true
that these powers manifest themselves through human
beings. There is no difficulty in discovering who were
the obsessed personalities that permitted themselves
to become the instruments of Satan in bringing this
great sorrow upon the French people.
"We will have no God, no masters," shouted the
mobs, not knowing that they were merely croaking
like frogs, repeating the ideas inculcated by Weishaupt
and his followers. Then they picked up a woman from
the streets of Paris, dressed her in costly robes and
profaned the Cathedral of Notre Dame by worshipping
her as the Goddess of Reason. In prostrating them-
selves before this new god,·the jeering crowds little
knew that they were surrendering to the philosophy
of the ancient GnQsticswho boasted that Reason was,
superior to Faith ..
Weishaupt was hidden so deep in the shadows that:
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swept Russia eighteen years ago, will show a remark-
able similarity. It has been aptly remarked that the
Russian Revolution began where the French Revo-
lution ended.
Parenthetically, it is interesting to notice that in
Germany, all secret orders have been disbanded under
the Hitler regime. Everything must be done in the
open and in plain sight. No fraternal secrets are per-
mitted. The Masonic Order, the Illuminati and all
other such societies have been destroyed~
Mussolini inaugurated the same policy when he
first ascended to power in Italy. His Autobiography,
published in 1928, contains many interesting state-
ments regarding Italian Masonry which may be appro-
priately repeated here, by virtue of the present dis-
cussion:
"The Fascisti, as intelligent people worthy of the
epoch in which they were living, followed me in the
new conception of religious policy. To it was attached
our war against Masonry as we knew Masonry in Italy.
It was a war of fundamental importance and Fascism
was almost unanimous in a determination to fight it
to the end.
"Let us not forget that the Masons of Italy have
always represented a distortion, not only in political
life, but in spiritual concepts. All the strength of
Masonry was directed against the papal policies, but
this struggle represented no real and profound ideal.
The secret society from a practical point of view rested
on an association of mutual adulation, of reciprocal aid,
of pernicious nepotism and favoritism. To become pow-
erful and to consummate its underhanded dealings, Ma-
sonry made use of the weaknesses of the Liberal gov-
ernments that succeeded each other in Italy after 1870
to extend its machinations in the bureaucracy, in the
magistracy, in the field of education, and also in the
army, so that it could dominate the vital ganglions of
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the whole nation. Its secret character throughout the
twentieth century, its mysterious meetings, abhorrent
to our beautiful communities with their sunlight and
their love of truth, gave to the sect the character of
corruption, a crooked concept of life, without pro-
gramme, without soul, without moral value.
"My antipathy for that disgusting form of secret
association goes back to my youth. Long before, at
the Socialist congress of Ancona in 1914, I had pre-
sented to my comrades the dilemma: Socialists or
Masons? That point of view had won a complete
triumph, in spite of the strong opposition of the Mason-
socialists.
"Later, in Fascism, I made the same gesture of
strength. It took courage. I obeyed the positive com-
mand of my conscience, and not any opportunism. My
attitude had nothing in common with the anti-Masonic
spirit of the Jesuits. They acted for reasons of de-
fense. After all, their inner organization as a religious
society is almost completely unknown.
"For my direct, methodical and consistent course of
policy the hate of the Masonic sect persecutes me even
now. Masonry of that type has been beaten in Italy,
but it operates and conspires behind the mask of the
international anti-Fascism. It utterly fails to defeat
me. It tries to throw mud at me, but the insult does
not reach its mark. It machinates plots and crimes,
but the hired assassins do not control my destiny. It
goes gossiping about my weaknesses, and the supposed
organic afflictions of my body, but I am more alive and
stronger than ever.
"This is a war without quarter, a war of which I
am a veteran. Every time that I have wanted to
cauterize difficult situations in Italian political life,
every time that I have wanted to give a sincere, frank
and loyal moral rectitude to the personnel in politics,
I have always had against me our Masonry! But that
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organization, which in other times was very powerful,
has been beaten by me. Against me it did not and
cannot win. Italians won this battle for me. They
found the cure for this leprosy."
But the sequel to the above story is that since
Mussolini wrote these words, he has been prevailed
upon to restore to Masons their previous liberties. In
August 1930 the Rosicrucian Digest, published in Cali-
fornia, printed the following significant announcement,
"The recent decision on the part of Mussolini permit-
ting Freemasons and Rosicrucians of Italy to hold lodge
sessions and to conduct their work again under a
national council composed of their own members and
officers, will result in a rapid revival of work in Italy."
Reports from England declare that powerful Jewish
influences close to Mussolini were responsible for his
reversal of policy.
Before drawing' this part of the discussion to a
close, perhaps a final word from Barruel would be
proper, in which he laments over the fact that the
French people were so stupefied that they could not
see the impending Revolution directly in front of them.
He says, "To give the fatal impulse to the world, it now
only remained for the sect to carry its mysteries into
a nation powerful and active indeed, but unfortunately
more susceptible of that effervescence which bereaves
man of the power of thinking, than of that judgment
which foresees disasters; to a nation which, in its
ardor and enthusiasm, too easily forgets that true
greatness is not that courage which bids defiance to
danger (for the vandals and barbarious can boast of
such heroes) ; to a nation, in short, that has ever been
a prey to allusions, and which, before it would hearken
to the councils of wisdom, might in its fury overturn
the altar and shiver the sceptre, returning to reason
only in time to weep over the ruins and lament the
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devastation of which it has been the cause."
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JEWISH CONTROL
WHEN good, law abiding Masons in Europe realized
what had happened to their order after the French
Revolution they became sick at heart and discouraged.
;,.Not until it was too late to correct the situation did
, they come to understand what had' happened. This
was particularly noticeable in Germany where the
Grand Master, the Duke of Brunswick, issued a Mani-
festo to all the German lodges in 1794 declaring that
European Masonry had been completely perverted by
the new sect, the Illuminati. In his utter despondency
he advocated disbanding the Order entirely.
I shall quote his famous Manifesto in part, "A
great sect arose which, taking for its motto the good
and the happiness of man, worked in the darkness of
the conspiracy to make the happiness of humanity a
prey for itself. This sect is known to everyone: its
brothers are known no less than its name. It is they
who have undermined the foundations of the Order
to the point of complete overthrow; it is by them that
all humanity has been poisoned and led astray for sev-
eral generations. The ferment that reigns amongst
the peoples is their work. They founded the plans
of their insatiable ambition on the political pride of
nations. Their founders arranged to introduce this
pride into the heads of the peoples. They began by
casting odium on religion .... They invented the
rights of man which it is impossible to discover even
in the book of Nature, and they urged the people to
wrest from their princes the recognition of these'sup-
posed rights. The plan they had formed for break-
ing all social ties and of destroying all order was
revealed in all their speeches and acts. They deluged
the world with a multitude of publications; they re-
cruited apprentices of every rank and in every posi-
tion; they deluded the most perspicacious men by
falsely alleging different intentions. They sowed in
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the hearts of youth the seed of covetousness, and they
excited it with the bait of the most insatiable pas-
sions. Indomitable pride, thirst of power, such were
the only motives of this sect: their masters had noth-
ing less in view than the thrones of the earth, and
the government of the nations was to be directed by"
their nocturnal clubs.
"This is what has been done and is still being done.
But we notice that princes and people are unaware
how and by what means this is being accomplished.
That is why we say to them in all frankness: The
misuse of our Order, the misunderstanding of our
secret, has produced all the political and moral trou-
bles with which the world is filled today. You who
have been initiated, you must join yourselves with us
in raising your voices,.so as to teach peoples and princ-
es that the sectarians, the apostates of our Order, have
alone been and will be the authors of present and fu-
ture revolutions. We must assure princes and peoples,
on our honour and our duty, that our association is in
no way guilty of these evils. But in order that our
attestations should have force and merit belief, we
must make for princes and people a complete sacrifice;
so as to cut out to the roots the abuse and error, we
must from this moment dissolve the whole Order.
This is why'we destroy and annihilate it completelyfor
the time; we will preserve the foundations for pos-
terity, which will clear them when humanity, in bet-
ter times, can derive some benefit from our holy
alliance."
Adam Weishaupt lived to the age of eighty-two.
He continued his criminal activities against civilization
for many years after the French Revolution. Forthe
sake of emphasis, let it be remarked once more that
Masonry in both England and the United States has
always been unlike the Masonry of continental Europe
which can best be designated by the use of the term
Grand Orient.
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The real conspirators behind the Illuminati were
Jews. The whole scheme was a Jewish plot to the
core. Bernard Lazare, a well known Jewish writer,
says, "There were Jews, Cabalistic Jews, around Weis-
haupt". One must also bear in mind the influence of
Kolmer, the mysterious Jew from the east, upon the
mind of Weishaupt even prior to the birth of the il-
luminati.
Confiscated documents of the organization dis-
close that of the thirty-nine chief sub-leaders of Weis-
haupt, seventeen were Jews. Illuminati-Hall of Ingol-
stadt, where Weishaupt lived, was later transformed
into a synagogue.
The Jewish method of exhausting their Gentile
environment has always been to stir up strife from
secret sources and engender class hatreds. This WliS
the plan used in bringing about the death of Christ;
a mob spirit was created. The same policy is de-
scribed in Acts 14 :2, "But the unbelieving Jews
stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil
affected against the brethren."
In indicting his own race, Lazare says, "The com-
plaint of the anti-Semites seems to be founded: the
Jew has the revolutionary spirit; consciously or not
he is an agent of revolution."
Returning to Mrs. Webster, we are told that the
Jew who turns himself over to subversive activities
becomes "a formidable hidden power". "Nevertheless,
in modern revolutions the part played by the Jews
cannot be ignored, and the influence they have exer-
cised will be seen on examination to have been twofold
-financial and occult. Throughout the Middle Ages
it is as sorcerers and usurers that they incur the re-
··1 proaches of the Christian world, and it is still the same
role, under the more modern terms of magicians and
loan-mongers, that we detect their presence behind
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the scenes of revolution from. the seventeenth century
onward."
The plan used by the Jewish leaders of the Illumin-
ati to keep informed concerning all Gentile activities
and to know what wires to pull so as to produce con-
fusion, was to require every member to spy constantly
on his fellow members. So, once a month, each 11-
himinatus was compelled to hand to his superior of-.
ficer a sealed envelope containing information about
his friends. It bore the title quibus lieet and was to
be conveyed to the unknown ruler at the top of the
Order's pyramid. The individual member down the
line was kept in the dark, knowing only one leader
above him, to whom he had taken the oath of blind
obedience. The Gentile dupes were taught to think
that they were parts of a great plan, and not concern-
ing themselves to learn that they had allowed them-
selves to become helpless cogs in a merciless wheel
which was created for the purpose of grinding the
Gentile nations to powder.
This system has been expanded in our day to cover
the entire Russian Empire concerning which it has
truthfully been said, "everybody is a spy spying on a
spy".. Every fundamental principle of the Illuminati
may be traced through the French Revolution, down
to the present hour through the avenue of international
Communism.
One of the closest men to Weishaupt was a Jew by
the name of Cagliostro. His real name was Joseph
Balsamo but he took the lodge name Comte de Cag-
liostro. He traveled through Greece and Egypt and
knew the occult secrets of the Jewish Cabala. He was
on the inner circle of the Illuminati and had much to
do with wrecking European Masonry and changing it
into an instrument for producing carnage. A close
associate of Cagliostro was the Swabian doctor Mes-
mer whose evil hypnotic science still bears the name
of Mesmerism.
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Since the Jews have always controled the main
arteries or finance and are thoroughly schooled in
the art of keeping out of sight while Gentile dupes
remain under the spotlight of the public eye, it is not
known in what quantities they poured sums of money
into Illuminati channels. But it is evident that from
some secret source the movement had inexhaustible
quantities to draw upon with which to carry out its
brutal plot against Gentile civilization.
Karl Marx, the recognized father of modern Com-
munism, edited his teachings out of the writings of
Adam Weishaupt. The views expressed by both men
are identical. at many points. The first Communist
Manifesto published by Marx in 1848 embodies both
the principles and the spirit of the Illuminati.
Therefore, what we know as Communism today is
the lineal descendant of the same anti-Christ conspir-
acy that brought about the French Revolution.
In his remarkable book Are These Things So?,
Colonel E. N. Sanctuary discusses the three ringlead-
ers who were largely responsible for revamping the
Illuminati and preserving its root ideas. We read,
"Marx, Lasalles, and Engels comprise the trio of Jews
who, taking an altruistic theory, managed in a short
time to turn it into a pronounced revolutionary doc-
trine, a doctrine that has left its scar on practically
every civilized nation and which has so wounded some
that they can not recover. Every cult and movement
to a certain degree reflects the outstanding character-
istics of the founders. Revolutionary socialism-no\-"
more commonly called communism-is no exception.
The outstanding traits of these three men, which can
be said to be outstanding traits of a large Jewish
element, are found to predominate in the various
groups that go to make up the present-day revolu-
tionary movement. They are: Arrogance, intolerance,
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inflamed emotions, lack of ethical standards, and a de- \
sire for revenge, pronounced in Marx; immoral and
unscrupulous acts, a demonic will, a disregard for the
truth, the belief that to attain an end any means is
justifiable, and a desire for .revenge, pronounced in
Lasalles; love of publicity, a desire to be thought 'pro-
gressive,' and a disposition to employ wealth attained
through whatever means, to the advancement of sub-
versive movements, pronounced in Engels.
"Another noticeable parallel between these three
men and the vast majority of those now credited with
being leaders in the world revolutionary movement--
call it socialism or call it communism-is that none of
them were 'wage.,earners' or of the groups of citizens
for whose welfare and uplift they insist they are work-
ing. Marx, to use good American slang, was a plain
'moocher.' Lasalles inherited a fortune and earned no
money himself. Engels who was engaged with his
father in the· operation of cotton mills in which chil-
dren were employed at scandalously low wages and for
wickedly long hours, was a wealthy man.
"Karl Marx made popular, apparently, the well
known Jewish system of adopting a name other than
one's own. His name was not Marx but Mordecai. He
came from a long line of rabbis' although his father
abandoned that profession and took up law. When
Karl was about six years old the older Mordecaire-
nounced the Jewish faith and embraced Christianity.
Some of Marx's admirers attribute this action on the
part of the elder Mordecai not to willingness but to
pressure brought by governmental agencies. This is
cited as one reason for Marx's presistent effort to de-
stroy everything related to, or erected upon, the Chris-
tian faith. Regardless of the reason, in later years,
as Marx associated more and more with the subversive
elements, he took the position that the whole world
was injured because of Christianity and believed-at
least he urged-the revolutionary weapon as the one
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and only means to correct the wrong. Of him Prof.
F. J. C. Hearnshaw writes: 'He was intolerant, bitter,
violent, venomous .... Nor was his ferocious intol-
erance a mere superficial defect of manner. It pene-
trated to the depths of his being and vitiated all his
thought. He was entirely lacking in the scientific
spirit, totally incapable' of dispassionate argument.
His inflamed emotions determined his conclusion, and
his perverted intelligence put forth all its powers, with
a complete disregard of all moral scruples, to provide
an apparently rational foundation for them ... Marx's
eminence is that of the agitator, not that of the think-
er. He did not make socialism scientific; he made it
predatory.' "
The parallelism between Weishaupt's teachings, the
French Revolution and the Russian Revolution is un-
mistakable ..
It has been explained that the Illuminati was
Jewish. In like manner the Moscow dictatorship is
Jewish. When the bureaucracy was set up in Russia ,.
eighteen years ago, it was headed by five hundred and
forty-five men, and of this number four hundred and
forty-seven were Jews, many of them having come
from the east side of New York. It has been estab-
lished on the floor of the Duited States Congress that
a Jewish banking firm in Wall Street actually supplied
Lenin and Trotsky with the money to finance the Rus-
sian outbreak. Mrs. L. Fry points out in her book,
Waters Flowing Eastward that as far back as 1893-9,4,
the Czar's government knew that Jacob Schiff, presi-
dent of the Kuhn, Loeb and Company bank in New
York, had been named chairman of the Committee on
the "Revolutionary Movement in Russia" by the B'nai
B'rith Qf the United States.
Another parallelism is the fact that Weishaupt
required the leaders of his Order to change their
names. In lodge parlance they also changed the names
(
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of cities. Weishaupt took the title of Spartacus.
It was interesting to me to learn while in Germany
that when the Reds first became active in that coun-
try a few years ago they did not call themselves Com-
munists. They were known as Spartacusts, in mem-
ory of Weishaupt.
The Jewish leaders in Moscow likewise changed
their names. Here are li few examples: Zederbaum
became Lenin, Bronstein became Trotsky, Finklestein
became Litvinoff, Sobelsohn became Rodak.
During the French Revolution, the Sabbath was
destroyed. The same has been done in Russia.
Atheism was the national religion of the French
Revolution. The same is true in Russia.
The Illuminati was correctly called a "subterranean
fire". In view of the foregoing disclosures, who will
say that the same flame is not burning today?
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RUSSIA TODAY
\VEthehave now
French learned
revolutionthatwas
what history the
in reality records as
ripened
fruit of an Illuminized and perverted Jewish Masonry.
After years of preparation there was suddenly re-
leased, upon a dumfounded humanity, a torrent of mis-
directed energy which changed the face of all Europe.
Sparks from the conflagration blew in every
direction and produced new flames in many parts of
the world. Although a hundred and fifty years have
elapsed since this holocaust took place, the forces thus
set in motion have by no means spent themselves.
It is one thing to fight for an ideal and it is another
thing to just fight for the sake of fighting. The Il-
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luminati of the eighteenth century, like the Commun-
ism of today, developed a professional fierceness which
feeds upon violence and human suffering. One over-
turn followed another as the appetites of the revolu-
tionists became whetted for French blood.
The Moscow leaders have likewise continued their
bestial crimes against the poor, helpless, exhausted
Russian masses for eighteen years, in the name of per-
petual revolution. They have reduced to a science, the
idea that there should be no rest and peace for those
who are governed. To them a revolution should be
continuous, never allowed to come to an end. The
formula is simple: if prosperity and contentment were
to settle down upon the people, the revolutionists would
be no longer needed; they would probably lose both
their jobs and their heads.
Equally asinine are the fro things of street-corner
Reds in the United States who demand the overthrow
of the government under the guise of seeking to pro-
tect the liberties of the toilers. Any human being with
an atom of common sense can see that the true purpose
of the Communist organizers is simply to stir up
strife and produce violence-because this is the way
they make their living. They are paid by the ring of
international despoilers to inflame the passions of
those who listen to them. If it was a matter of per-
sonal conviction with them they would not be trying
to tear down a system of democratic government under
which the citizens have enjoyed more liberty, frater-
nity and equality than any other country in the history
of the world .
Every American citizen can vote, exercise free
speech, free press, accumulate property, expand his
mind and heart without interference, and worship God
according to the dictates of his own conscience. He has
never had a king, tyrant or dictator to rule over him.
He enjoys more personal liberty than any other type
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of citizen nas ever enjoyed since governments began
to exist on this earth. Yet the country is full of bass-
voiced, leather-lunged, soap-box orators who are de-
liberately trying to create class hatred in the name of
personal liberty and the mythological "forgotten man".
As in the day of the Illuminati they are being directed
from an occult, Jewish source far above them.
Any man who will live a good life, work hard,
develophis mental faculties and take advantage of his
opportunities for self advancement, can climb without
restraint to the topmost rung of human achievement,
under the American system of government. Note for
instance, the thousands of men coming from the hum-
blest and poorest walks of life, who have fitted them-
selves for positions of responsibility in the United
States Senate, Congress and other positions of local,
and national government.
Instead of demanding the destruction of the Ameri-
can social order as it now exists, it would be more in-
telligent if agitators were to agitate for the purifica-
tion of what we already have. Their inconsistency is
at once evident. They are inconsistent because they
are insincere. Yet this is the principle behind Illumin-
ism, past and present. Illuminism has for its main
purpose the intensifying of human restlessness as a
means of tearing down everything that exists, so by
long range advance preparation, the way may be paved
for the powers behind the scenes to set up their final
system of international government which proposes to
reduce all Gentiles to the same state of slavery that
exists in Soviet Russia at the present time.
Therefore, we discover that Communism is not a
new thing. We have followedit back in a straight line,
to the year 1776. But even now, we have not traced
it to its historic source. As an anti-Christ conspiracy,
existing for the purpose of blotting out everything that
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hears the name of Christianity, its roots reach much
deeper into the past than space has permitted flS to
show in this treatise. '
No, Communism is not something that is designed
to bless and enrich the poor and middle classes! It is
not a movement to relieve human suffering. It did
not originate with the down-trodden Russian masses.
It did not break forth spontaneously eighteen years
ago. It resulted from centuries of under-cover Jewish
planning. Its final objective is to exhaust the human
family in suffering and misery until the whole world
can be brought under the heel of the merciless Jew-
ocracy of Moscow which has been aptly called THE
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